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Blooming unnoticed
Grasses have flowers, too, but People who suffer from hay fever are
their flowers are often small allergic to pollen. They suffer most in
and dull. Many are surrounded spring and early summer, when grasses
by green scales, making them release lots of pollen into the air.
difficult to spot. Like all wind -
pollinated flowers, grasses do
not need bright petals to Bearded
attract insects. Their flowers wheat
grow in clusters at the top of
tall stems. Next time you walk Barley
through a field of long grass,
watch out for puffs of pollen
as you brush against them.
Grasses such as this
Timothy shed their
Wild oat
pollen into the air,
where it is spread
by the wind.
Like grasses,
plantain has tiny
flowers packed
together on top
of a long stem.
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